This piece originally appeared on the Conversation. Who doesn’t love butterflies? While most people won’t think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in ...

Using a net made from an old curtain attached to a coat hanger rim, Manhattan Beach resident Ron Leuschner began his butterfly collection in 1944 as a young teenager in Illinois and recently donated ...

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An ambitious young man who hopes to write a comprehensive book on butterflies and moths of New England now has about 150 of his collection of 5,000 on exhibit at the Berkshire Museum for the month of ...

MILLERSBURG – Encased in a series of cabinets, dozens of moth and butterfly displays sit in neatly arranged frames and mounts, waiting to be unearthed for its next showing. More than 18,000 of the ...

Andrew Warren works for the Florida Museum of Natural History. He has received funding from NSF for research on Lepidoptera systematics. He is a member of and past President of The Lepidopterists' ...

CHICO — Chico biologist Sterling Mattoon is donating his extensive collection of 60,000 butterfly specimens to the University of Florida — after more than 70 years of collecting. “I’m 92 years old,” ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital. Steve Collins, 74, was ...

From his home in Harrisville, all the way to Asia, Europe and beyond, George Andrushko collected butterflies for nearly half a century. “My sweetheart loved butterflies and he loved collecting them,” ...